Larvae feed on plants in the four o'clock family (Nyctaginaceae), most commonly the ovules of unripe fruits of spiderling, including scarlet spiderling (Boerhavia coccinea) and red spiderling (Boerhavia diffusa). In southern Florida they also skeletonize the leaves of burrowing four o'clock (Okenia hypogaea) (Matthews, 2008).

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